
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wysocki, SJ 
A1  - Segal, W 
T1  - Ethanolamine Phospholipid Metabolism in Myelinating Rat Brain
JF  - Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
JO  - Aust. Jnl. Of Bio. Sci.
Y1  - 1972
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
SP  - 125
EP  - 132
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9720125 
N2  - 3H-1abelled ethanolamine phospholipids were isolated from the brains of 13-day-old rats after intracerebral injection of [9,1O-3H]palmitic acid. Groups of rats of the same age were injected intracerebrally with preparations derived from the whole labelled fraction, the ethanolamine plasmalogen-depleted fraction, or [14C]palmitic acid. A study of the distribution of radioactivity in phospholipids and sphingolipids, 2 hr after injection, indicates that the alkenyl chains of ethanolamine plasmalogen are effective precursors of the acyl groups of sphingomyelin and cere-broside. This role of plasmalogen is discussed in terms of the properties and distribu-tion of plasmalogenase, aldehyde dehydrogenase, and fatty acid chain-lengthening enzymes in brain. 
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